Re: IBM wins against LzLabs

2025-03-11 Thread Martin Trübner
Phil, >> I read (well, skimmed) the full decision (240pp)  would you care to post the link? Martin -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message:

Re: Java shared classes, persistent and mmap

2025-03-11 Thread Attila Fogarasi
Java on z/OS tends to need huge memory, for example Rational Team Concert recommends Set MAXMMAPAREA to 1 Of course your classes could be a lot smaller, but I'd suggest increasing SHMEMMAX by an order of magnitude. If you want to know an exact number, you need tooling such as Sysview. On

Re: OMVS DATASET

2025-03-11 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Zafadm -aggrow Check the fine manuals for details. Note: the size specified titn the command is the final total size desired. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chalk, Shelia Sent: Monday, March 10, 2025 4:29 PM To: I

Re: Zowe certificate

2025-03-11 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential To use a PKCS12 certificate you will need to create and initiailize the TKDS in ICSF. I do not believe that USE of the TKDS is required to store the certificate is required. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peter Se

Re: Using CSNBRNGL

2025-03-11 Thread Colin Paice
Check in Cryptographic Services Integrated Cryptographic Service FacilityApplication Programmer's Guide SC14-7508-09. Ive put icsf C code in https://github.com/colinpaicemq/EasyICSF, so you can get to see what coding "rules" etc looks like It looks pretty easy if you can define character strings

Re: Stupid outages you caused (was: Cost of an outage)

2025-03-11 Thread Jousma, David
I didn’t cause it, but I had to help fix it. At a prior employer, facilities staff were on the raised floor doing preventative maintenance on the chiller/air handler.While doing the PM, a big clump of dust fell onto the heater in the unit and started to smoke. Neither the facilities pers

Re: Using CSNBRNGL

2025-03-11 Thread Farley, Peter
Billy, On this page IBM tells you how to set up the C language parameters. Wherever this page says a parameter is “integer” it means “PIC S9(9) BINARY”, where it says “string” it is any “PIC X” of at least the length specified by the matching integer length parameter area. The integer random

Re: Using CSNBRNGL

2025-03-11 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 14:29:16 +, Billy Ashton wrote: >Hey all! It's been a while since I bothered y'all, and I hate to do this >again, but my manager wants me to do some research on using the Crypto >feature to generate "true" random numbers - CSNBRNGL. > Would /dev/random do that for you? <

Re: Java shared classes, persistent and mmap

2025-03-11 Thread Colin Paice
My values are USER=COLIN OMVS INFORMATION UID= 990021 HOME= /u PROGRAM= /bin/sh CPUTIMEMAX= NONE ASSIZEMAX= NONE FILEPROCMAX= NONE PROCUSERMAX= NONE THREADSMAX= NONE MMAPAREAMAX= 16777216 SHMEMMAX= 400M Colin On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 at 21:45, Darrold Usher < 062909c800f7-dmar

Re: Java shared classes, persistent and mmap

2025-03-11 Thread D Gaebler
I once had a similar issue, it turned out to be: MAXSHARE options set for SMFLIMxx? https://eclipse.dev/openj9/docs/xshareclasses/#persistent Unfortunately the z/OS docs say neither its manditory nor it states any defaults if not specified. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=values-state

Re: Zowe certificate

2025-03-11 Thread jgmauta...@yahoo.com.ar
In my personal experience as a RACF administrator, ZOWE is the most confusing and complicated product (regarding security configuration) I have encountered. IMHO, its documentation is scattered and lacks the clarity that one expects for the Mainframe platform. Juan El martes, 11 de marzo de

Re: Java shared classes, persistent and mmap

2025-03-11 Thread Colin Paice
Denis, That solved it - thank you. I''ll blog it Colin On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 at 09:06, D Gaebler wrote: > I once had a similar issue, it turned out to be: > MAXSHARE options set for SMFLIMxx? > https://eclipse.dev/openj9/docs/xshareclasses/#persistent > > Unfortunately the z/OS docs say neithe

Re: OMVS DATASET

2025-03-11 Thread David Spiegel
Hi Shelia, Here is sample JCL to increase the size of the zFS: //ZFSADM03 JOB (ACCT), // '    ', // CLASS=A, // MSGCLASS=X, // MSGLEVEL=(1,1), // REGION=0M, // NOTIFY=&SYSUID //GROW    EXEC PGM=IOEZADM,REGION=0M, //   

Re: Stupid outages you caused

2025-03-11 Thread rpinion865
Anybody remember OWL from Pansophic? "Confidentially doc, I am the wabbit." Bugs Bunny Sent from Proton Mail Android Original Message On 3/6/25 8:45 PM, Dave Gibney <06fb76de82cb-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Pretty sure our Wylbur FETCH accessed the spool di

Re: Open enterprise edition ISO

2025-03-11 Thread Seymour J Metz
"Why didn't you wondering why none of the non-ASCII platform support optical drive and its media?" What is the 3995 Optical Library Dataserver, chopped liver? --  Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ___

Re: Using CSNBRNGL

2025-03-11 Thread Tom Harper
Billy, Why not use the PRNO/PPNO hardware instruction on your CPU if it is new enough? Just write a small assembler program. Tom Harper Phoenix Software International Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 11, 2025, at 10:29 AM, Billy Ashton > <0665bda14df5-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:

Re: Zowe certificate

2025-03-11 Thread Colin Paice
I found the Zowe documentation hard to follow, there is no clean golden path, and there are a lot of distractions in the documentation (and some of it doesn't work). I've been working with the team and come up with some doc which one day may get fed into the product. It is still work in progress

Re: IBM wins against LzLabs

2025-03-11 Thread Phil Smith III
Also (thanks to a friend): https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/lgvdwqmzkpo/IP%20IBM%20TRADESECRETS%20complaint.pdf That's the Texas Wormhole case--the U.S. version of the same thing. I gotta say, my reaction to this is (a) did they really think they'd get away with it? As an early ma

Re: Using CSNBRNGL

2025-03-11 Thread Billy Ashton
Thanks Peter and everybody! There was a lot of good information in this thread, and I learned a few things. We already have COBOL programs being used and supported for other things in this area, so I was tasked to find a COBOL solution here. Now, I have a working program and will set about see

Java shared classes, persistent and mmap

2025-03-11 Thread Colin Paice
I'm looking into the new persistent option of Java shared classes, and I'm getting JVMSHRC337E Platform error message: EDC5132I Not enough memory. This may be due to OMVS MAXMMAPAREA. I think it is connected to the mmap() function. If I try to use mmap with a regular file in a zfs, I'm getting

Re: IBM Z Day: April 8, 2025

2025-03-11 Thread Phil Smith III
Kurt Acker wrote: >Once registered, 3 technical tracks are displayed for the day. Um...I did, I see no agenda still? I see tiles for "badges" but that doesn't list sessions. Am I just missing this?? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / s

Using CSNBRNGL

2025-03-11 Thread Billy Ashton
Hey all! It's been a while since I bothered y'all, and I hate to do this again, but my manager wants me to do some research on using the Crypto feature to generate "true" random numbers - CSNBRNGL. He thinks this will help us get better, less predictable results for the places we need to use r

Re: Java shared classes, persistent and mmap

2025-03-11 Thread Colin Paice
Following on from my question, and needing to increase MAXSHARE in SMFLIMxx. Is there a way of finding out what is currently in use. I'd like to correlate what is used, to what I think should be used. I'm happy looking at a dump for this. Are there any pros and cons for using this maxshare sto

IBM wins against LzLabs

2025-03-11 Thread Phil Smith III
Various articles, most of which basically add no more detail than my Subject: line; https://www.silicon.co.uk/e-regulation/legal/ibm-wins-lawsuit-against-lzlabs-over-mainframe-patents-603173 has the most. -- For IBM-MAIN subscr

z/OS 3.2 Preview Announcemnet

2025-03-11 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Did I this miss this? Preview Announcements usually come out end of February. If anyone has the link it would be appreciated. ::DISCLAIMER:: The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the name

Re: IBM wins against LzLabs

2025-03-11 Thread Martin Trübner
The STACK covered it in detail last summer- On 10.03.25 17:37, Tom Brennan wrote: Wow! Thanks Phil. On 3/10/2025 8:37 AM, Phil Smith III wrote: Various articles, most of which basically add no more detail than my Subject: line; https://www.silicon.co.uk/e-regulation/legal/ibm-wins-lawsuit-ag

Re: Mystified by FTP working for one user but not another

2025-03-11 Thread Charles Mills
On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:18 +, Farley, Peter wrote: >SWAG: No OMVS section in the new userid definition while your userid has one? Good thought! Thanks. New user has an OMVS segment and can access z/OS UNIX files via 3.17 and TSO OMVS. Charles ---

Re: Mystified by FTP working for one user but not another

2025-03-11 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 19:45:24 -0500, Charles Mills wrote: >On Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:18 +, Farley, Peter > wrote: > >>SWAG: No OMVS section in the new userid definition while your userid has one? > >Good thought! Thanks. New user has an OMVS segment and can access z/OS UNIX >files via 3.17 an

Re: Mystified by FTP working for one user but not another

2025-03-11 Thread Farley, Peter
SWAG: No OMVS section in the new userid definition while your userid has one? From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2025 7:30 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Mystified by FTP working for one user but not another I have a Dallas system

Re: Rescue system (was stupid outages)

2025-03-11 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
W dniu 07.03.2025 o 18:49, Jeremy Nicoll pisze: On Fri, 7 Mar 2025, at 16:57, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: So, what's the problem with keeping some tech LPAR up and running? It does consume very few CPU cycles, few memory, same disk space. If this "tech LPAR" is specifcially limited to emergency u

Mystified by FTP working for one user but not another

2025-03-11 Thread Charles Mills
I have a Dallas system where I pretend to be a sysprog. I just added an additional userid. FTP to and from z/OS UNIX files works for my userid but not for the added userid. I have checked and all of the WS_FTP session parameters are the same. I looked at the console and realized I was getting E

Re: Open enterprise edition ISO

2025-03-11 Thread Seymour J Metz
No CD, DVD or ISO. Check the OAM documentation; it may list the hardware manuals. --  Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Paul Gil

Re: Zowe certificate

2025-03-11 Thread Matt Hogstrom
What parts of Zowe are you installing? Unfortunately, Zowe is like z/OSMF where it is a collection of services and not a singular thing so it can be confusing. API Mediation Layer is probably the most complicated setup in that it requires a set of certificates for TLS as well as client authori

Re: IBM wins against LzLabs

2025-03-11 Thread Phil Smith III
I read (well, skimmed) the full decision (240pp) and have some observations. IANAL, of course, but these caught my eye: - Secret names ("Rent Control", "Texas Wormhole") from the start seem a bit suss - So does LzLabs buying Winsopia, which I still don't quite understand the point of, since they